Software

Google’s been busy. Not content with just indexing the internet (again), they’ve decided your emails need a helping hand. Enter: Gemini in Gmail, now fluent in Japanese and Korean, alongside the existing English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, and Italian. ‘Help Me Write’: Because Apparently, We Can’t Email Anymore Launched at Google I/O 2023, ‘Help…

Adobe’s AI: Friend or Foe of the Modern Hustler? Time. The great leveler. Also, the one thing we never seem to have enough of. Enter Adobe, stage left, promising to wrestle back control of our dwindling hours with the might of AI. But is it a genuine partnership, or just another digital distraction? Reclaiming…

AI & the Serial Thriller: Will Robots Write Your Favorite Cliffhanger in 2025? So, you’re thinking about writing a serialized story? Good. You’ve picked a path fraught with peril, demanding both the stamina of a marathon runner and the meticulousness of a brain surgeon. But fear not, aspiring Dickens of the digital age! Artificial…

OpenAI Eyes Windsurf: $3 Billion Code Assist? Word on the digital street (Bloomberg, specifically) is that OpenAI might be dropping a cool $3 billion on Windsurf, the AI-powered coding assistant. If this deal surfaces, it’d be OpenAI’s biggest splash to date. Buckle up; things are about to get… interesting. Windsurf: Riding the AI Wave…

OpenAI’s Agents Get a Voice: Prepare for the Knight Who Emails You So, the singularity is here, or at least, OpenAI is doing its level best to convince us it is. Their latest foray into the uncanny valley? Giving their AI agents the power of speech. Yes, you read that right. Soon, a simulated…

Midjourney’s Textual Turn: Chasing Creativity in LLMs Midjourney, the AI image generator juggernaut (boasting a Discord community that could populate a small nation), is apparently branching out. Seems visuals weren’t enough. Now, they’re tackling text. The audacity! Following summer murmurings of bespoke AI hardware, Midjourney dropped a research paper in collaboration with NYU, venturing…

The AI Subscription Fatigue is Real Let’s be honest, the AI landscape is a bit of a mess. ChatGPT here, Gemini there, Midjourney demanding your artistic soul (and monthly fee) somewhere else entirely. Keeping track of subscriptions, logins, and which AI does what best is enough to make you yearn for the days of…

Canva, the darling of drag-and-drop design, is making a bold play for… well, everything. In a move that’s either genius or madness (jury’s still out), they’re stuffing their platform with AI image generation, interactive coding courtesy of Anthropic, spreadsheet functionality, and a whole heap of other goodies. Canva Goes Full AI: The Singularity (Design…

The relentless march of Moore’s Law may be slowing, but the demands on chip designers are only accelerating. Enter Synopsys (SNPS), stage left, with a solution promising to drag semiconductor development kicking and screaming into the AI era. Their weapon of choice? ‘AgentEngineer,’ a suite of AI agents designed to automate and accelerate specific…

Forget painstakingly arranging virtual furniture with the grace of a newborn giraffe. Homestyler, the SaaS platform claiming dominion over 18 million users and a staggering 38 million design cases (who’s counting?), is about to unleash AI-powered chaos – or, as they prefer to call it, ‘innovation’ – upon the interior design world at NVIDIA’s…